“Stating of facts cannot and must not be criminal, even if they offend someone.” — Jussi Kristian Halla-aho, Finnish blogger convicted of defaming Islam.

Finland’s Supreme Court has found a prominent politician guilty of defaming Islam for “Islamophobic” comments he made on his personal blog.

The ruling represents a major setback for free speech in a Europe that is becoming increasingly stifled by politically correct restrictions on free speech, particularly on issues related to Islam and Muslim immigration.

The Helsinki-based Supreme Court ruled on June 8 that Finns Party MP Jussi Kristian Halla-aho was guilty of “inciting hatred against an ethnic group” for blog posts he made in 2008 which compared Islam to paedophilia, and for sarcastic comments which insinuated that immigrants from Somalia are predisposed to stealing and living off welfare.

Iranian courts have sentenced two bloggers to death for “spreading corruption,” and government security forces have arrested four other journalists, in the lead-up to the nation’s March elections.

“In the past two weeks, security forces have reportedly arrested four journalists,” the U.S. State Department said in a statement, “including Shahram Manouchehri, Sahamedin Bourghani, Parastoo Dokouhaki, and Marzieh Rasouli, and Iranian courts confirmed death sentences for bloggers Saeed Malekpour and Vahid Asghari, both of whom were not accorded due process and now face imminent execution on charges of ‘spreading corruption.'”

Free speech is under fire. Online thugs are targeting bloggers (mostly conservative, but not all) who have dared to expose a convicted bomber and perjuring, vexatious litigant who is now enjoying a comfy life as a liberally subsidized social justice operative. Where do your elected representatives stand on this threat to our founding principles?

On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) bravely stepped forward to press this vital issue. In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, Chambliss decried the “harassing and frightening actions” of Internet menaces who recently have gone after several conservative new media citizen journalists and activists.

Mere HER i The Marietta Daily Journal. National Review Online her. The Paramus Post her. Malkins blog gik i sort i protest:

Going dark to urge congressional action: Who will protect the freedom to blog?

By Michelle Malkin • June 8, 2012

My syndicated column today covers the crucial battle between truth-telling bloggers versus convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin and his band of malicious online thugs. In honor of the National Day of Blogger Silence called by Ace of Spades, this blog is going dark. (UPDATE: See Ace’s manifesto today here. Read Mandy Nagy’s here.) But far from shutting up, I’ll be spending the day calling, e-mailing, and tweeting members of Congress, GOP leaders, journalists, and influencers to ask them what they are doing to defend the First Amendment rights of bloggers. This is a day of action, not inaction. Below my column, I’ll list some contact info for elected officials who need to hear from you. Please join us and act for free speech. Thank you.

Convicted terrorist bomber and perjurer Brett Kimberlin is free while one of his many harassment victims remains under a judicial gag order for the crime of writing about Kimberlin’s violent criminal history. It’s a bizarre situation, as I reported on “The Source” TV show with Ezra Levant.

Kimberlin and his cadre of cyber-stalkers try to bully conservative bloggers into silence. They post personal information and home addresses of their targets to send the message that “we know where you live.”

After Brett Kimberlin was criticized by conservative bloggers, they were targeted with swatting. Swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a 9-1-1 dispatcher) into dispatching an emergency response team, usually by spoofing phone numbers over a VOIP system. The name is derived from SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics), one type of such team. Such action places law enforcement and citizens at risk and are criminal actions. In addition it reduces law enforcement officer (LEO) coverage and costs taxpayer money.

On a flight from Copenhagen to Brussels, I read two publications that I see infrequently: the International Herald Tribune and Le Soir, the principal Belgian newspaper in French. Both, not surprisingly, had much coverage of the European crisis, and both used an expression that, to me, has a sinister ring: the European project.

“But it is certainly true – if you do look at islamic doctrine, law, and scripture as written – that Jew-hatred – anti-Semitism – is intrinsic, and it is so because of the example of the muslim prophet mohammad. And it began according to the historical record with his conflict with the Jews of the peninsula, which became the Saudi peninsula.”

Michael Coren with Shobhna Kapoor: Keep Omar Khadr out!

After they finish the well-deserved fawning all over Blazing Cat Fur and Five Feet of Fury (“Cat Fur! Cat Fur! Cat Fur!” may very well become the new “Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!”), Michael Coren and activist Shobhna Kapoor discuss the return of terrorist Omar Khadr to Canada and her efforts to stop it.

Fra 14. maj 2012:

Ezra Levant: Iran’s nuclear threat

Ezra Levant and John Robson discuss Iran’s race to acquire nuclear weapons and the cluelessness of those who deny it.

Ron Banerjee of the Canadian Hindu Advocacy joins Michael Coren to discuss the group who put up the TTC ad for mohammad’s imaginary friend “Allah,” and their alleged support for . . . drumroll . . . terrorism.

Michael Widlanski, author of “Battle For Our Minds: Western Elites and The Terror Threat” joins Michael Coren to discuss the islamophilia of self-appointed Western elites. Feel free to smack one in the head when you see ‘em.

Fra 13. marts 2012:

Michael Coren with Nick Cohen: Freedom of speech under attack

Nick Cohen, author of “You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom” joins Michael Coren to discuss the alliance between the Left and islamofascism.

Fra 6. marts 2012:

Michael Coren & Laura Rosen Cohen: The Tolerant Left

Laura Rosen Cohen joins Michael Coren after a long absence to discuss the robocall non-controversy and the tolerance of the tolerant Left.

This guy never fails to disappoint. He has all the opportunity to walk right through an open door and yet he’d rather be McGuinty-lite.

There is something inherently wrong with the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, having served up a decade plus of this guy and John Tory before him. The party needs to be blown up and reconstituted without the red tories who currently infect it.

OPP officer Rick Zupancic (2010 Ontario Sunshine list: $140,277.43 per annum) , cool with illegal Indian activity, arrests a member of Canace for daring to ask for the badge numbers of his useless fellow OPP officers.

Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs joins Ezra Levant to discuss the hilarious case of the New York Times accepting an ad urging Catholics to leave the Church and yet essentially rejecting the same ad reworked by Pam to urge muslims to leave islam.

Hypocrisy doesn’t bother me, stupidity does, and the New York Times has it in spades.

Sun News goes undercover to expose the scam in which foreign women pay money to give birth in Canada to secure Canadian citizenship for their child and to enable the rest of the family to fast track their way through the immigration queue.

“The worm inside the doctrine of multiculturalism is the lie that all cultures are worthy of equal respect and equally embracing of individual freedom and democracy.” – Dr. Salim Mansur

by Phyllis Chesler – February 17, 2012

Dr. Salim Mansur’s new book Delectable Lie: A Liberal Repudiation of Multiculturalism has been positively reviewed and endorsed by a handful of mainly conservative reviewers and distinguished intellectuals.

In my opinion, the book has been underestimated. It is a real gem. And, despite a recent spate of other important books on this subject, including Ibn Warraq’s Why the West Is Best, Mansur’s work is unique. Mansur gives us very valuable information about the history of multiculturalism in Canada, which is important because Canada — where Mansur lives, writes, and teaches — may well be the very first Western democracy to have legally enshrined this policy. We learn, up close, what that policy has done.

Salma Siddiqui, former president of the Muslim Canadian Congress, joins Ezra Levant to discuss Syed Soharwardy and the street theatre fatwa issued by Canadian imams against honour killing and definitely for consumption by gullible liberals.

Opdatering 3. marts 2012:

A Liberal vs. Multiculturalism: An Interview with Salim Mansur

A dissident Muslim confronts the Sharia apologists.

by Phyllis Chesler – March 2, 2012 – 9:40 am

Recently, PJM sat down with professor and author Salim Mansur, whose latest book I reviewed here.

In this interview, Salim describes himself as a “Muslim dissident” and he challenges all those who describe themselves as “moderate” Muslims. Unlike many “moderate” Muslims, Salim is opposed to a shariah-compliant nation and believes that religion and state must be separate in order for modernity, human rights, scientific inquiry, and democracy to flourish. He says so, below, in his own words. He also has strong words to say about immigration and Canada’s multicultural policy. Born in Calcutta, India, Salim arrived in Canada in the spring of 1974.

Center Executive VP Fred Grandy joined Jeff Katz to discuss Shariah law in Pennsylvania, the Harvard “One-State-Solution” Conference and a possible trade for American hostages held in Egypt

David Menzies on jackass judge Mark Martin: Zombie Mohammad

Mechanicsburg District Judge Mark Martin and his staff temporarily relocated to the Cumberland County Courthouse in Carlisle yesterday after the judge received complaints and threats after his comments in the “Zombie Muhammad” case, The Patriot-News is reporting. The controversy follows an incident at the Mechanicsburg Halloween parade, where a Muslim man at the parade, Talaag Elbayomy, was accused of accosting an atheist activist, Ernest Perce, who dressed as a zombie version of the Prophet Mohammed.

The incident was taped and posted on YouTube here and Perce also posted an audio recording of his hearing with Martin. In the audio, Martin appears to tell Perce that he is a Muslim, and that Perce’s actions were “very, very, very offensive” to the faith.

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Hundreds of threats for assault victim in case dismissed by Quran-minded judge

By Pamela Geller – February 26, 2012

The Pennsylvania man assaulted in October by a Muslim who was offended by his Halloween parade “Zombie Muhammad” costume said he has received hundreds of death threats after a judge dismissed his attacker’s criminal charges.

Ernest Perce told The Daily Caller that Talaag Elbayomy, a Muslim man, “grabbed me, choked me from the back, and spun me around to try to get my sign off that was wrapped around my neck.”

The facts of the case are clear: Ernest Perce, a young atheist in Pennsylvania, marched in a Halloween parade dressed as “Zombie Muhammad.” A Muslim, Talaag Elbayomy, grew enraged when he saw Perce’s costume, and began choking him while trying to pull off the fake beard that Perce had glued onto his face. Perce went to the police, and so did Elbayomy – the latter under the mistaken impression that it was illegal in the United States, as it is in many Muslim lands, to insult or mock the prophet of Islam. Elbayomy was mistaken, of course: it isn’t illegal to mock Muhammad in the United States, but it may be soon, courtesy Judge Mark Martin, who dismissed the case against Elbayomy.

Martin claimed in a message trying to explain away his mishandling of the case that he dismissed the case for lack of evidence: “In short, I based my decision on the fact that the Commonwealth failed to prove to me beyond a reasonable doubt that the charge was just; I didn’t doubt that an incident occurred, but I was basically presented only with the victim’s version, the defendant’s version, and a very intact Styrofoam sign that the victim was wearing and claimed that the defendant had used to choke him. There were so many inconsistencies, that there was no way that I was going to find the defendant guilty.”

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Se også The American Thinker – 28. februar 2012:

David Akin of the Daily Brief invited The Journalism Dork onto his show, but the dork is too busy in Costa Rica.

Ezra Levant on John Miller aka “The Journalism Dork”

John “The Journalism Dork” Miller has had his ass handed to him a number of times by Mark Steyn (just Google it), but he keeps coming back for more. This time he’s critical of Ezra and Sun News.

Fra 7. februar 2012:

Michael Coren on Ryerson Journalism

Ray Heard joins Michael Coren to discuss Rye High, then Ray goes off and tears each of his enemies a new one. Amusing to watch!

The Shagged Sheep

by Mark Steyn – 02 Nov 2011

This is a long piece but it does have underage sex and bestiality in it. So enjoy!

The other day I had an e-mail from M J Murphy, who blogs as Big City Lib, saying only this:

I think you owe Dr. Miller an apology.

There followed a link to a post called Steyn Gets Punked By 28-Year Old Literary Hoax:

Remember the kerfuffle between Mark Steyn and journalism professor Dr. John Miller from a few weeks back? Dr. Miller accused Steyn of taking material for “America Alone” from illegitimate sources like the infamous Little Green Book: Sayings of the Ayatollah Khomeini.* [*UPDATE: M J Murphy has quietly revised this paragraph, and so the airbrushing begins]

Actually, I don’t think Dr Miller has accused me of any such thing, though I admit, given his shifting accusations, that I’m no longer quite sure what he’s accusing me of. Just to recap, said “kerfuffle” arises from this passage in a review I wrote for Maclean’s of Oriana Fallaci’s final book The Force Of Reason: